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In addition to 50124 and 50324 listed in the post above, there is also a 50224. Buses 50117, 50217 and 50316 are at the public works facility and will obviously be disposed of at some point. Bus 50417 was observed in service yesterday so it is still active. 50517 is a supervisor SUV. I saw it from a distance and was unable to get make/model. 50823 and 50923 are Ram Promasters and are used in paratransit service. I assume there is a bus 507 as well but have not seen it to be able to confirm it.

Transit Cape Breton just took delivery of two more Nova LFS buses, #7165 and 7166. They are not in service yet. Cutaway #7153 is a Startrans Candidate II on a Ford Transit chassis and is used on routes 6 and 7.

Correct. The Vicinities were the first with the new blue/white logo and they have been doing it randomly on all buses since. It was not cost cutting, just time for a slight change.

Westcoast Sightseeing has the Big Bus contract for Vancouver and is using some of the original ex-GO Transit 8000 series Enviro500 double deckers. Bus #848 is ex-GO 8021 and is seen in downtown Vancouver.

I was in Jasper yesterday and photographed the transit fleet. Cutaway 5578 is used for local service while an unnumbered cutaway is used for the Regional service.

Hinton Transit appears to have a newer cutaway. Photo of 142251 is attached.

I saw at least 4 cutaways for the On Demand service numbered 19-27 to 19-30. In addition 19-125 has been renumbered to 19-25 for use for On Demand. Cutaways 19-124 and 19-126 were spotted at the garage with the old numbers so I suspect they are not being used for On Demand yet. The ElDorados 1995 and 1996 are also being used for On Demand. Buses 1964 and 1982 were observed at the garage without licence plates and various parts removed. These are obviously now parts buses.

It should be either later this week or early next week. 2316 (652 1BM) and 2318 (652 3BM) have been plated and appear ready for service.

Midland Penetanguishene Transit seems to have another ex-Oxford, MS bus. Bus # 19-906 was spotted in service yesterday and was blue overall.

With the delivery of the 4 new Novas, do you know if any of the older Novas were retired?

As of 11:45 this morning, bus 1014 is not in service today.

TTS is holding Transportation Weekend this year on the Saturday and Sunday of Labour Day Weekend. On the Saturday, we are chartering a YRT Van Hool (one of the 500 series, converted from VIVA operation). We hope to take it to Newmarket and have numerous photo stops planned. On the Sunday, we will be using a GO Transit 2400 series MCI buses to travel to Halton County Radial Railway. We will be stopping in Oakville and Milton on the way there. Details are in the attached PDF file. Transportation Weekend 2025 Flyer.pdf

1014 is one of the new AVL test buses. There are 7 total that are not tracking for third party applications at this time. Vontas, the contractor, has a plan to eventually merge the AVL files between the old and the new systems and is confident that all buses will track once this is place. Buses were supposed to be started to be equipped with the new AVL by mid-July but this has been pushed back a little bit. Both of the retro buses, 1822 and 2206 have been in the shop quite a bit recently. I am not sure what the issue is. Bus 1014 will be on Barton today pulling out at 10:51 AM.

The BHA convention in Montreal was a great success. The six days (including pre-convention and post convention activities) set a record for BHA conventions. The number of participants were between 35 and 51 on all days which is the most the BHA has had post-Covid. Thanks to the local Montreal organizing committee who did a fantastic job ! The 2026 convention will be in Philadelphia from June 3rd to 6th, with a possible post-convention Kawasaki LRV charter on June 7th. Details will be announced at a later date.

Buses 2315 and 2316 have been painted and look good. The yellow is a little bit brighter than the yellow on the previous 2300s.